Extending the RiPLE-DE process with quality attribute variability realization
Ricardo de Oliveira Cavalcanti, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Sílvio R. L. Meira · 2011
Software product lines engineering is a viable way to achieve the productivity gains desired by companies. Product line architecture must benefit from commonalities among products in the family and enable the variability among them. The aspect of variability in quality attributes has been neglected or ignored by most of the researchers as attention has been mainly put in functional variability. This paper describes an architecture and design process for software product lines that can properly deal with quality attribute variability. The proposed approach enhances the RiPLE-DE process for software product line engineering with activities and guidelines for quality attribute variability. An initial experimental study is presented to characterize and evaluate the proposed process enhancements.